Tom Wolf, the Democratic candidate for governor, released a television ad touting Pennsylvania’s manufacturing industry as a gateway to middle-class jobs. In the ad, Wolf walks through a plant, heaping praise on the company and its employees. If...

Jamie and Glenda Pini stood in the pasture of their small farm, among a herd of rambunctious goats, several large Angus cattle, and a pile of manure.
The Pinis' farm, off Route 100, north of Interstate 78, where highways and warehouses transition to...

Little ones can climb on fire engines and sit in the driver’s seat of a Mack truck at the Junior League of the Lehigh Valley’s 3rd annual Trucks & More event Saturday at the Allentown Fairgrounds. The event, sponsored by the Lehigh Valley Health Network, offer

OK, I bit. Give the headline writer at California Healthline kudos for drawing me into the story instantly with the tantalizing, "Could this little-watched court case sink Obamacare?" If you're interested in the nation's health care policy, this is a don't-mis

Allentown's 15th Street will be open to traffic all day Thursday, with no temporary closures, parking restrictions or anything of that nature. Why is that news? Because 15th between Route 22 and Martin Luther King Drive has been bolloxed up for most of each da

Whitehall Mayor Ed Hozza took issue with my prediction in today's column that traffic conditions on MacArthur Road in his fair township during this year's holiday shopping season promises to be "horrific." I base that judgment, of course, on the fact that slow

Traffic tie-ups on Route 412 between I-78 and Bethlehem are not a new model by any means, having tormented motorists since improvements on that section of 412 commenced a year ago (after several years' delay). After a winter-season lull in construction (PennDO

Regarding my criticism of the short left-turn lane resulting from the concrete center island on northbound MacArthur Road at Mechanicsville Road in Whitehall (photo above), township Traffic Engineer Frank Clark called to clarify that he had no hand in designin

“We’re going to be rocking and rolling in a minute,” Wendall Holmes told the crowd Friday night. “But for now we got to go back home.” And with that, the gospel-rock stompers The Holmes Brothers kicked into a guitar-heavy version ...

Allentown's hockey arena won't open until at least 2013, but the first of the office employees it is expected to attract have already started to arrive. More than 70 workers from Lehigh Gas Corp. and West Park Insurance are moving onto Hamilton Street...

According to the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, overnight demolition work on the remaining sections of the old Lehigh River Bridge in Parryville will require Route 248 to be closed between Centre Street and State Road in Parryville tonight and Monday...

From foundation to frame, the newest house on Spruce Street in Schnecksville was built by students from Lehigh Career & Technical Institute. After two-and-a-half years, the 2,240-square-foot ranch home at 4833 Spruce St. which will be auctioned June 18, is rea

By Jerry Feaser Of the Pennsylvania Game Commission Game Commission food and cover crews begin season of wildlife habitat improvements; Illegal dumping and ATV use remain problems HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania Game Commission’s teams of land managers, forester

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the current Republican frontrunner in the oversized field of hopefuls to take on President Obama next year, is making his Pennsylvania campaign debut in Allentown Thursday. Romney will hold a late afternoon news conferenc

The heavy thunderstorms that pounded the area late this afternoon have forced the Stellar Construction "Catch A Rising Star" High School Basketball Showcase to move indoors. The boys tournament is moving to Parkland and the girls are moving to Whitehall. Also,

It comes as no surprise that researchers are beginning to see positive and negative trends developing for the millions of teens and pre-teens who use social networking. The real news is parents who think they can control it ought to think again. In a presentat

The Blood Sweat & Tears concert Sept. 10 at Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks — the venue’s single major fundraiser for the year — will be moved into the Musikfest Café because of anticipated heavy rain, ArtsQuest has announced. Blood Sweat & ...

Here’s more evidence of how out of touch the record industry is these days: Neither The Summer Set nor The Cab has ever had a Top 50 album and neither is signed to a major label. But there they were ...